Why This Family

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Luke 6 12-36
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3 Cs of Bridges Family
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3 Cs of Bridges Family

• CALL of the family (vv.12-20)

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• CALL of the family

• God calls me into a new family

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• No one who has left home or brothers or sisters
  or mother or father or children or fields for Me
  and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred
  times as much in this present age (homes,
  brothers, sisters, mothers, children and
  fieldsand with them persecutions) and in the age
  to come, eternal life. Mark 1029-30

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• CALL of the family

• God calls me into a new family
• Belonging to Gods family meets one of the
  deepest needs of my heart

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• You are members of Gods very own family,
  citizens of Gods country, and you belong in
  Gods household with every other Christian.
  Ephesians 219b (LB)

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3 Cs of Bridges Family

• CALL of the family
• COMPONENTS of this family (vv.35-36)

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• COMPONENTS of this family

1. My new family empowers me to live by a
new set of values inside (vv.20-26)
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• Old World Values New Family Values
  (vv.24-26) (vv. 20-22)
• Power rich Weakness poor
• Comfort well fed Sacrifice
  hunger
• Success laugh Grief weep
• Recognition speak well Exclusion exclude
  you

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• 1. My new family empowers me to live by a new
  set of values inside

• Im free from the control of my old world
  values

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• 1. My new family empowers me to live by a new
  set of values inside

• Im free from the control of my old world
  values
• My blessings come from my relationship with
  Christ rather than my circumstances

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• COMPONENTS of this family

1. My new family empowers me to live by a
new set of values inside 2. My new family
empowers me to love those who dont share
my beliefs (vv.27-35)
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• 2. My new family empowers me to love those
  who dont share my beliefs

• That means to pray for those who mistreat
  me (v.28)

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• 2. My new family empowers me to love those
  who dont share my beliefs

• That means to pray for those who mistreat
  me
• That means to seek the highest good towards
  others (vv.29-30)

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3 Cs of Bridges Family

• CALL of the family
• COMPONENTS of this family
• CATALYST for this family (vv.35-36)

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• CATALYST for this family

• I know how to (love), because Ive been
  (loved)